Posted on: May 13, 2004
KAMLOOPS-A love of animals steered Dana Pick into volunteer work as a docent at the BC Wildlife Park while completing her honours degree in Animal Biology at UCC. Now she’s there full time as project intern for the park’s education & volunteer department and coordinator for the park’s volunteer docent program. A pet project she’s…
Read morePosted on: May 12, 2004
KAMLOOPS-What’s a beach party without barbecued hotdogs, games and maybe even a round or two of bocce ball? Even better, this is one beach party where nobody will drop ice cream in the sand; it’s going to be held on the lush UCC campus, on the grassy commons outside Old Main Student Street from 11:00…
Read morePosted on: May 12, 2004
KAMLOOPS-Galleries within a gallery. This Thursday, May 13th, a unique display opens at the Kamloops Art Gallery: miniature art galleries, each containing their own miniature exhibitions. Created by UCC Fine Arts students in response to a project from “Models and Maquettes,” a third-year special-topics course, the miniatures are scale models of actual galleries, along with…
Read morePosted on: May 12, 2004
KAMLOOPS-Major awards are always welcome, but the pennies add up, too. UCC’s Foundation, dedicated to fundraising for scholarships and bursaries on behalf of students, knows it isn’t always possible to help out in a really big way, but, just as students really appreciate a $50 bursary to help with the costs of books and living,…
Read morePosted on: May 12, 2004
KAMLOOPS-For the first time in the 31 years the BC High School Mathematics Contest has been held, two brothers have taken top place in the junior and senior finals. Drew and Scott Hegadoren, Norkam Secondary students in Grade 10 and 12 respectively, walked off with first place in their categories in the contest last Friday….
Read morePosted on: May 7, 2004
Update: Mandatory retirement was ended at TRU in 2007. KAMLOOPS – The University College of the Cariboo and the UCC Faculty Association have signed a Letter of Understanding that authorizes exceptions to the UCC mandatory retirement policy. The agreement allows eight faculty employees to continue working past age 65, until July 2006. Roger Barnsley, UCC…
Read morePosted on: April 21, 2004
KAMLOOPS-As the winter semester winds to a close, students anxiously await the outcome of exams and final essays. Some students, however, have already received tangible proof of their success. Here is a sample of student success across the disciplines at UCC: Sciences: UCC Sciences students Eric Bottos, Stephanie Richards, and Stuart Chambers, all of Kamloops,…
Read morePosted on: April 21, 2004
KAMLOOPS-Here’s a truly once-in-a-lifetime offer: until UCC gets a new name as BC’s newest provincial university, there’s something to help fill the gap: “Name that University” t-shirts. Right now, UCC has a call out for residents in the UCC region to suggest names for the new university. With these t-shirts, however, it doesn’t matter whether…
Read morePosted on: April 20, 2004
KAMLOOPS – Dr. Graham Hingangaroa Smith, Distinguished Chair in Indigenous Education and Universitas 21 Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia, Professor of Education at The University of Auckland and International Ambassador for the indigenous university Te Wanangao Awanuiarangi, will speak about ‘Transforming Education: Re-claiming, Re-imagining, Re-creating the Education of First Nations’ at UCC…
Read morePosted on: April 20, 2004
UCC’s new Canada Research Chair in Community and Ecosystem Ecology, Dr. Lauchlan Hugh Fraser will be in attendance at a media reception next week: Time: 1:00 pm Date: Thursday, April 15, 2004 Location: CN Boardroom, UCC Clocktower Building The federal government announced the appointment of Dr. Fraser as UCC’s newest Canada Research Chair on Monday,…
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